"They give themselves or each other names that are not the names they're known by on the National Sex Offenders Registry. There's the Rabbit and Plato the Greek and Paco the biker-bodybuilder and P.C. the coach and Ginger and Froot Loop and probably by now Lawrence Somerset is no longer Lawrence Somerset, the Kid thinks and wonders what the creep is calling himself now that he's had a few days to ditch his old name.(...) There's something tainted about their old names, their real names, something shameful about them or at best embarrassing and controlling so that a new name like Kid or Paco or Ginger or even a weird name like Froot Loop can be liberating in a small way".

"The Kid tries convincing the Professor that it's a dumb idea to try to get his neighbors to meet together but the professor doesn't listen which the Kid has decided is typical of him and maybe typical of all professors although this is the only real professor he's ever actually met in person. Assuming he is a real professor because you can't be sure that anybody is what he says he is. Or she. He's remembering the night he got busted and the watery feeling he got all over his body when he realized that nothing was what he thought it was and no one was who he and she claimed to be".